All the headlines from our Massachusetts Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 3 2019 // Authorities say one worker was killed and another seriously hurt when they fell from the bucket of a lift truck while working on a Massachusetts bridge.State police say the workers fell onto a barge at about 10 a.m....
Dec 2 2019 // Massachusetts on Wednesday adopted the country’s toughest ban on the sale of flavored tobacco and vaping products, including menthol cigarettes, in response to a rise in youth vaping and an outbreak of vaping-related...
Nov 26 2019 // Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has released a report highlighting her office’s ongoing efforts to protect children, families and workers from the health risks posed by exposure to asbestos.The report...
Nov 25 2019 // Massachusetts lawmakers passed a groundbreaking ban Thursday on the sale of flavored tobacco and vaping products, including menthol cigarettes.The bill would also place a 75% excise tax on vaping products and require...
Nov 22 2019 // Investigations by the Connecticut Department of Labor’s Wage and Workplace Standards Division into complaints of workers being improperly employed at a large poultry plant in Bozrah has led to fines of more than...
Nov 15 2019 // Insurers are not liable for crumbling foundations caused by defective concrete unless the home is on the verge of collapse, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled. The decision will likely amplify public pressure for a...
Nov 13 2019 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Massachusetts-based Gould & Naimoli Partners LLC/G&N Insurance (G&N). The transaction became effective November 1, 2019. G&N is a property and casualty insurance agency...
Nov 4 2019 // EverQuote Inc., an online insurance marketplace based in Cambridge, Mass., has hired Joseph Sanborn as senior vice president of Corporate Development and Strategy.Sanborn possesses more than two decades of experience...
Nov 1 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to hold The Roof Kings LLC and its owner, Craig Galligan, in civil contempt for not fulfilling the terms of an order issued by the...
Oct 28 2019 // Massachusetts officials are opening their own investigation into last September’s Merrimack Valley natural gas disaster.More than 100 structures were damaged in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover in the Sept. 13,...
Oct 25 2019 // The state of Massachusetts sued Exxon Mobil Corp on Thursday, accusing the oil giant of misleading investors and consumers for decades about the role fossil fuels play in climate change.Attorney General Maura Healey filed...
Oct 24 2019 // Risk Strategies, a Boston, Mass.-headquartered, privately held insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has appointed its National Health Care Practice leader, Bob Dubraski, as chief growth officer.In his expanded...
Oct 23 2019 // A state judge has allowed Massachusetts’ four-month ban on the sale of all vaping products to stand as a legal challenge makes its way through the courts.Suffolk Superior Court Judge Douglas Wilkins in a decision...
Oct 23 2019 // Tremor, a Boston, Mass-based, programmatic insurance and reinsurance risk marketplace, has appointed Jeremy Ginter as the company’s new vice president of sales.Ginter brings more than fifteen years of experience in...
Oct 22 2019 // A former beauty salon director who went public about sexual misconduct allegations against casino mogul Steve Wynn nearly two years ago is suing Wynn Resorts and company executives, alleging they invaded his privacy and...
Oct 10 2019 // A utility worker has been hospitalized after receiving an electric shock of nearly 7,500 volts while working at a Massachusetts substation. Sandwich Fire Chief John J. Burke said Tuesday the Eversource worker suffered both...
Oct 10 2019 // The owner of a Malden, Mass.-based cleaning company pleaded guilty and was sentenced to jail in connection with an insurance fraud scheme that involved worker misclassification, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey...
Oct 9 2019 // Risk Strategies, a Boston, Mass.-headquartered, privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has named President John Mina as CEO. Mina will succeed Michael Christian, Risk Strategies founder and...
Oct 9 2019 // A judge has rejected a request by the billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma LP to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Massachusetts over their role in the state’s opioid crisis.The decision by Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders...
Oct 8 2019 // A federal judge upheld Massachusetts’ four-month ban on the sale of vaping products on Friday, at least for now.U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani denied the vaping industry’s request for a temporary reprieve...